IntelliJ Settings with High DPI monitors

One day recently, I finally switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ and Lord’o Lord, I love it.

Now, before going any further, let me tell you that it was not easy! There was a bit of learning curve. There were tweaks here and there and I had to remap quite a few ( about 10-15) shortcuts to my choice. And yes, that meant re-learning the shortcuts a little bit. It took me about 2 weeks of full time development to get accustomed to it and now I am about 81%(why odd number? because there is no formula for it 😛 )  comfortable with it.

Now, I am fortunate to have good monitors at home and at work so with power comes responsibility problems! One of the main problems is the size of the menu items! Honestly, I pretended that it did not bother me much, but today I was vexed and had to figure it out, and put it out on the internet because I know for sure that there is a sad soul who is banging their head on the same problem.

Without further ado.. when the size of menu items become so small that even ants cant look at them and you are sitting literally half an inch away from your monitor, follow this step.

I got this from here. https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000556364-IntelliJ-magnifies-after-computer-sleeps?page=1#community_comment_115000479810

That’s it.

Happy Coding everyone!